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🕑 Added 2024-06-20 15:00:08 +0000 UTCGreetings adventurers!
Fungus scares me. Perhaps that’s an odd way to start a conversation, so let me revise. Fungus absolutely terrifies me. There are few things in this world as tenacious, efficient, and downright deadly as fungal growths. Some have a type of intelligence to them with long ranging communication methods and so on. It’s downright ghastly. I suppose it’s only fitting that one day after death we return to feeding the insects and fungus. I’m not sure what someone was thinking when they crafted this gauntlet, but I can only hope it gets out of my shop sooner rather than later.
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Design notes from Matthew:
Fungus is weird, dude. Yeah look, I know that’s kind of a blanket statement, but the more you read about it, the more you find out how weird it actually is. Go ahead, I give you permission to step away from this for a bit to just go read about mycelial networks. Obviously some things have already covered this, like The Last of Us, but I had an idea for an interesting way to take it. I like the idea of returning limited life to something with fungus, but I didn’t want to make this a zombie summoning machine or something. That’s when the “speak with dead/talking corpse idea” came about.
For the 5E version, I wanted to give this some boosts to grappling, but grappling is a contested check so really the benefits are somewhat smaller than they otherwise could be. I was worried that with too much of a bonus on a contested check, you’d be running into situations regularly where a poor roll streak would punish a user too much or reward a creature too much. Ultimately I settled on definite damage, but a smaller bonus.
In Pathfinder 2E grappling works quite differently where you’re just rolling to beat a set DC. That makes it a bit more interesting to want to apply bonuses, but it also means I have to be a bit more careful with damage. That’s why I went with the additional basic save to resist that damage so that this thing wasn’t just cranking out dps every round if a creature has trouble escaping.
This has been an amazing month that is ending up rather plant themed and I can’t say I’m sad about it. Sometimes exploring a theme for a bit is a really interesting way to force yourself into having different ideas. After the last item of the month, we’ll be moving on to non-plant themed items, but this theme has grown on me. Sorry, not sorry for the pun.
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